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Voltaire, a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions, announced that the company has joined the InfiniBand Trade Association's (IBTA) steering committee. Ronnie Kenneth, Voltaire's chairman and CEO, will serve as a director on the steering committee to provide expertise and guidance to help shape the future of the IBTA and the continued adoption of InfiniBand architecture by systems vendors and customers. Voltaire joins IBTA steering member companies that include leading hardware vendors such as Agilent Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, and Sun Microsystems and other InfiniBand systems vendors. "Voltaire is committed to taking a leadership role to provide the highest quality, standards-based, InfiniBand solutions for high performance computing applications and next generation data centers," said Ronnie Kenneth, Chairman and CEO, Voltaire. "We are very pleased to be joining the IBTA steering committee and believe that our participation in this team effort will contribute to the next phase of InfiniBand: volume adoption." Voltaire has been an active member of the IBTA since the year 2000 and has long taken a leadership position to drive the adoption of InfiniBand in the high performance computing and data center markets. The company was the first to develop and implement the SDP protocol to bring InfiniBand to IBM DB2 and Oracle database cluster solutions and is the only InfiniBand systems vendor to contribute sources to the InfiniBand Open Source community. Voltaire's high performance InfiniBand solutions are used to power server clusters at many advanced computing facilities including Sandia National Laboratories and Mississippi State University.